Saturday, Sep 8, 2012 - 4:00 AM
"Cans, Coal and Corporations: The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition"
Intrastate transportation and industrial technology exploded in the second half of the nineteenth century, creating a new vision of America. Join the onscreen participants as they draw on essays written to celebrate the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago to explore this new perspective, both cosmopolitan and expansionist, and its implications for the future.G